Uploaded my lastest designs, this time they’re of the Back to School publication. It’s a newspaper insert to several Maryland newspapers in association with Maryland Family which is produced by the same company and department as where I work, Patuxent Publishing. There were several original illustrations created as well as stock and submitted photos. [...]

Edit: Sorry for the odd post. I forgot that I had to tag things properly to get it to format from my phone

I don’t know if I’d call it a perk of my job, but I had my hand in the last cover photo of Maryland Family Magazine. It’s a pretty odd task, but when the art director asked for my help, I thought why not. Is it wierd that they needed a child’s hand [...]

T-shirts are a pretty cool form of expression. They can look like anything. They can be inspiring. They can define you as a person. Sometimes they’re a bit too casual , but they can have an upscale feel with the right design. Here’s a look at some t-shirts, followed up with some [...]

James Houston brings us Big Ideas. It’s the Radiohead song, played on old computer equipment. It’s great to see people think way outside of the box. The idea of this remix is to illustrate how something can be more than what they were designed for. That’s an inspiring sentiment and makes for [...]

On some level you probably want your designs to be accessible and efficient. Even if you have a more complicated or detailed design, there should be a simpler structure supporting it. Inspired by a Lifehacker post on office organization as unlikely as it sounds, I’ve come up with a few ideas that might [...]

I was reading Wikipedia on graphic design topics. Most of the articles aren’t in great shape without basic information on the topics we all use everyday in our profession. The web is big enough that any of the missing information can be found pretty quickly just by a Google search. I don’t [...]

Being a graphic designer can be a pretty pricey thing. We like to have powerful computers and expensive enterprise software. I’m looking at you Adobe Create Suite …. There are alternatives that aim to meet the needs of our profession and products. Graphic design is an art and software is just a [...]

Social networks aren’t just great for connecting people with their friends and family. They’re great ways to find content. Myspace has been a great platform for connecting bands with their fans and fans with musicians. The power of social networks is being harnessed to help artists and designers come together in new ways. Community [...]

After reading about the design of social features for Google Reader, I was thinking about the overall design aesthetic of the product. Google Reader is just ugly. Why all of the blue and green boxes? It would fit in much better with Google’s company brand if all of that was just [...]